This morning, Scafell began this term’s work on shape by exploring the school grounds searching for, identifying, sketching and then describing the properties of the 2D shapes they discovered. These included: rhombus, square, trapezium, parallelogram, kites.
High level vocabulary was used effectively and appropriately to describe each shape:
Today all our year 5 & 6 pupils proudly shared their topic homework completed over the Christmas holidays. Each child conducted their own research before producing an information report on a famous volcano of their choice. These included: Mount Etna, Mount Vesuvius and Krakatoa. Their work demonstrated their knowledge and included: photographs with captions, diagrams, glossaries, technical vocabulary, headings and subheadings.
We have been delighted with the high levels of attendance from pupils in all three classes during the autumn term. We appreciate that no one can help being ill so we have decided to award a ‘Good Attender Certificate’ too for those pupils with 98% or above, Well done to our 100% attenders this term – 21 pupils in total.
Skiddaw class welcomed the sunshine today as it meant we could get outside and do some science work on light! We have been learning about what makes shadows and how the shadows cast from the sun change during the day. Here we are marking out the shadow every 20 minutes during the afternoon.
This was what we noticed and discussed about the shadows – they moved, they were equally spaced (as we marked them every 20 mins), the shadows got longer as time went by, the shadow was clearest nearest the object and more hazy the further away you went from the object, during the last visit the school building blocked out the sun’s light so there were no shadows to be seen.
Skiddaw class have been really enjoying reading The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher these past few weeks. We’ve forgetten everything we thought we knew about the North Pole. We’ve met a boy called William, his dad, Santa Claus, an elf named Snozzletrump, the meanest girl in the world Brenda and… a most unusual dinosaur called the Christmasaurus. Our magical story will continue in January.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas holidays from Skiddaw Class. Here we are munching our hot buttered crumpets listening to the last chapter before the holidays…
This morning, Scafell Class enjoyed continuing to create their models of dome volcanoes; complete with rocks, rivers, moss, hills, trees, buildings and even the odd dinosaur. Here we are in action. Mrs Farraday was very impressed with how we demonstrated positive collaborative learning:
We are so very pleased with our amazing volcano models completed today. We also invited children from across school to witness several rather dramatic eruptions.
This morning in assembly, every child in school received a raffle ticket to win the wonderful honour of cutting the ribbon to open our new facilities. Ailsa and Sophia were the two lucky winners and opened the dining room this morning with reporters from the Westmorland Gazette in attendance. Look out for our news in the paper very soon.
We began with some Y6 musicians playing the festive pieces before the service even started. Then our Christmas service was led and written by Scafell this year. They chose one aspect of Christmas then in pairs wrote their own pieces to say in the service. They made comparisons between how we celebrate Christmas today and the first Christmas. We hope you enjoy reading their messages and thoughts about Christmas.
We had our Christmas Musical Extravaganza; The children demonstrated their wonderful skills playing violins, guitars and piano. We enjoyed styles from classical to folk and more than one version of Jingle Bells! Thanks must go their excellent music teachers; Mrs Rainbow, Mrs Hurley and Mr Duesbury. Well done to all players – it was an absolute pleasure to listen to your performances.
Year 5 and 6 have had great fun this week creating their models of volcanoes in groups. The design brief required each group to be able to make a specific type of volcano (either composite, shield or cindercone); and to ensure it looks like and erupts like a real volcano.
Here’s how our models look so far:
Very impressed with our very thorough tidying up at the end of a very messy afternoon:
